16oz Founders stout glass. Looks DARK for a brown. Smells of chocolate malt and a tad of vanilla. Tastes of chocolate and malts. A light hint of vanilla, and bitterness. Very thick for a brown..almost porter-like. MF is smooth, with a nice twang at the back.

If you had blindfolded me before I partook of this beer, I might have said it was a lager (just being honest here), or a porter that went west. I liked this beer, but not sure I'll go out of the way for more. I can't knock it for what it is supposed to be.

Charming color. Dark caramel brown with a soft orange hue to wink at you. Tan head that fell fast but left a good ring. Roasty rich malt with the faint scent of cocoa. Slight herbal from hop. Caramel. smooth bubbly full flavored malt with no real hop flavors until the beer finishes nice and bitter. Coffee, earthy roasty not burnt. As the beer warms you notice the hops more. They are a smooth coolness to the middle. Finishes with a touch of earthy hop spice and lots of malty richness. Dry and with a gentle linger.

DATE: July 31, 2016... OCCASION: Just enjoyed a nice evening with Judi and Jeff Grow... GLASSWARE: Barley Creek pint... pours a dark brown, almost cola black body with a fleeting two-finger off-white head that rings to a string of filmy bubbles... sugary maltiness mingles with chocolate and vanilla to suggest a flavorful first sip... black licorice, light bread and molasses also leave hints... an incredibly drinkable beer, with a medium-bodied mouth feel that kicks the experience to life... soft, smooth, and apologetic as it leaves--the aftertaste is slightly lactic and brief... vanilla, cocoa, sweet sugars, light hazelnut and cola make for a confident, appetizing experience... Avery delivers on its goods, and this is no exception...

I poured this from a bottle into a clear teardrop glass. It pours a very dark brown with an unusually slight, tan head. I'm a brown ale lover, and this is good beer, but it reminds me much more of a stout. Most brown ales are very malty. I taste dark fruit. It's not what I'll grab when in search of a brown ale. To see what I mean, try a Samuel Smith's in comparison.

Beautiful dark brown color. Very light tan and light hear that laces nicely. The smell is sweet malt with just a slight tobacco undertone. The taste is sweet malt, a slight tartness of green apples, and just a hint of hops bitterness. A pretty nice brown ale.

Aroma: chocolate, roasted barley, sweet bready malts. Very nice, perfect for the style.
Appearance: Dark brown with a great head.
Taste: lovely malts on display here: toast, caramel, nuttinesss, a little spiciness, sweetness giving way to a crisp finish.
A great brown ale. The most underrated style out there in my opinion, but beers like this show how brown ales can be just as flavorful as their darker cousins.

This one pours a lighter brown, with a small head, and a bit of lacing.

This doesn't smell like an awful lot, unfortunately, there's a bit of toasty malt and some caramel, but not a whole lot going on here.

This is a serviceable brown ale, drinkable, but pretty uninteresting. The malt backbone is lighter than I'd want out of a good brown, I wish for more toastiness. There's just a slight bit of hop bitterness.

L: Dark brown with good clarity and beige head. Ruby around the edges of the glass. 4.5
S: Fresh malt in the aroma. Maybe a Brittish yeast strain? A little fruity ester. 4.25
T: Bitterness is medium-low but right on for this brown ale. The specialty malts pop for me and that fruity, estery note brings it all together. 4.5
M: Light to medium body, somewhere in there. There's a very slight but lingering tartness that helps dry it out. 4
O: This is a great brown ale. It's very true to style, nothing overdone or underdone and nothing is out of place. 4.25

It's definitely better than most browns I've had, but the bottom line is that I'm just not a brown enthusiast. It's livelier with the chocolate, toffee, and (stronger) vanilla notes, as opposed to many other browns which are just kind of there. With a bit more punch (and we all know Avery excels at that) I could almost see this being a porter, but at 5.5% ABV you can have a few if you want. Solid offering, but still just not my favorite style.

Poured from a 12oz can into a pint glass. A very well put together brown ale by Avery. The chocolate maltiness taste this brown ale delivers is just delicious. So good it is almost like desert. One of my favorite brown ales being right next to Rogue Halzenut brown ale!

Packing more hops than your average brown, plenty bitter, nutty. Coffee malt flavors. A little caramel, toffee, coffee all over it. This is a chunky, jacked up brown, and it is better than average for sure. If its not 1st tier brown ale, its damn close.

Reminds me of that sweet Ellie girl at the Winnemucca courthouse. So fine :)

Can to Goblet. Appearance is dark dark brown, frothy healthy white head. Legs. Aroma is brown sugar,barley,some hops, almond,hazelnut. Taste is sweet,grassy, Malty, nutty. Very tasty. Feel is creamy and smooth. This is a great drinkable beer.

Very dark brown with only a trace of light making it through. Sweet malt and the smell of fresh baked white bread. There is also a bit of nuttiness in the nose from this one. The taste is slightly sweet and yeasty with a sort of roasted coffee near the finish. The body is medium with a good amount of carbonation that slightly stings the tongue. This is a really well done brown. Glad I drank this one.

Poured from tap, yeilds thin fine bubbled head. A swirl and a sniff gives almost malt or hop, but a sweet mild hazelnutty aroma. Fizzy carbonation gives a bite up front, then slides into darker roast malt notes of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, and biscuity character. A little thin for me but okay for style. Overall a decent clean brew capable of a session. As capable as a Newcastle in my book.

12 oz bottle poured into a pint glass
no bottle or enjoy by date
pours amber brown with a thin off white head that faded quickly
smell chocolate smoky nutty and a bit fruity
taste similar to the nose smoke up front and then chocolate and fruit with a dry finish
feel smooth drinkable med body
a very solid consistent go to brown

A high amount of chocolate, toasted bread crusts, with dark malts, tea bitterness, merlot, and a slight antiseptic breath at the end. I would say the front half carries the beer, the finish sort of leaves a lot to be desired...but I still want to drink more.

Medium body with a semi-dry parch throughout, a little water, and a polite dryness on the tongue.

Overall thoughts : A nice brown ale with a few off notes but nothing too poor. I like the chocolate and malt and even though the bread crusts could be tamed a bit, as well as the wet mop, it's a balanced effort.

Bought in a can (brewed some point earlier this year, I really need to know how to read those canning dates) and poured into a pint glass. The beer is a transparent brown color with a thin head that disappeared quickly on me. The beer has a sweet smell of the mixture of malts and chocolate with a hint or a toasted aroma. The taste is a little nutty and chocolaty with enough malts and hops to give the beer an easy to drink balance.

This is a dark brown beer, with an initially creamy and medium-sized head. The head falls to wisps. The aroma is nutty, slightly roasty, and has a background of hops. Chocolate and malt, and semi-dry in taste. Medium hop bitterness, but still substantial. Full in body and enjoyable.

Pours a dark brown color, with a small lacing head. Nice roasted malt aroma with hints of nuts. Complex flavor, lots of nut with hints of vanilla to finish. Good body good flavors. Overall complex and tasty.

Deep brown chocolate color with light head. The smell of vanilla and roasted malts comes wafting across the bar. Taste is very light and dry . If you were expecting a porter-like experience by the color, you'd be dissapointed. For a brown ale, this one hits the (non) sweet spot...nicely done. Mouthfeel is tame and very drinkable with a fall / winter stew. We'd get his again and put a sixer in the fridge to just have around.

Clear mahogany, rocky tan head that looks sexy but produces a fear of a 'hoppy-take' beer ahead. Nose is still promising, toffee nuttiness and vanilla. The flavor explodes with caramel maltiness and nut/vanilla overtones. No hoppiness here, to my pleasure. Sweet like brown sugar, but I'm into that. The finish does carry a less-than-desirable malt husk/prune quality. Full bodied and hearty.
Aren't brown ales supposed to be boring? Not this one. I dunno how they got these flavors, but a they produced a rich brown with a great, warming balance of sweet caramel, nuts, and most deliciously vanilla. Just found my new fall weather beer.